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Don Pedro Calderon / Don W. Cruckshank.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cruickshank, Don William.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681.
- Calderón de la Barca, Pedro.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 471 pages, 32 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- The birthplace: Madrid in 1600
- The family background
- Childhood and early adolescence
- A turning-point
- A talent discovered by accident
- Letters, not arms
- Blasphemy, sacrilege and lèse-majesté
- Lessons for controlling personalities
- Only poetry, not precious stones
- Taking over from Lope
- Knight of Santiago
- Discordant voices
- The storm gathers
- War and disillusionment
- A time to mourn
- Beginning to recover
- Epilogue: the glories of the world.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-434) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780521765152
- 0521765153
- OCLC:
- 318872049
- Publisher Number:
- 60001137433
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